Bay State Gas Company Records Billion-Dollar Capital
Dover reports confirm Bay State Gas Company of Delaware increased authorized capital to 1 000 000 000 dollars with 20 000 000 shares of 50 dollars each. The certificate, filed December 1897, cites the 1897 corporate actions and lists J Edward Addicks as president and J S Kell ar as assistant secretary. The revelation suggests the company may hold the earliest billion-dollar capitalization in the region.
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Dover
Del
Bay State Gas Company
J. Edward Addicks
Bay State Gas Company of
Delaware
John F. Donahue
Massachusetts Legislative Committee
Peninsular Investment Company
Wilmington
Supreme Court affirms several cases and overturns others
The full bench sustains the defendant's exceptions in Charles J. Buttle vs. George G. Page Box Co. and sets aside a $3793 verdict. It overrules Winthrop vs. Soule and Crosby bond, reverses Reagan witness ruling, dismisses De La Vergne vs. Hub Brewing, and upholds Alden Fuller vs. New York New Haven Hartford on negligent use of a boiler appliance.
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Supreme Court
Charles J. Buttle
George G. Page Box Company
Winthrop
Eliza M. Soule
Executrix
E. Everett Crosby
Horatio S. Soule
Soule
Crosby
the Commonwealth
Thomas Reagan
Reagan
de la Vergne
Alden Fuller
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Controversy Hits Massachusetts Water Board Hearing
The committee grilled board figures on contracts and settlements amid accusations of favoritism and below market pricing. Witnesses discussed contractor practices, camp locations, and liquor raids tied to commissaries while noting delays in settlements and potential political influence. The hearing adjourned with more testimony planned for next Tuesday.
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Gennaro
Mr. Sprague
Water Board
Representatve Walsh
Casparis
Evans
Mr. Evans
Mr. Walsh
West Boylston
Benton
Run Over by Ice Wagon Injures Eight Year Old Man
Eight year old Lorenzo D Ridlen was injured when a wheel passed over him while attempting to climb an ice wagon in front of 698 Huntingon Avenue. He was taken to City Hospital with a serious spinal injury. Ridlen is married and resides at 29 Soley Street.
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Lorenzo D. Ridlen
Ridleni
Soley Street
Gould Cup Offered at New England Kennel Club Show
New York’s Frank Jay Gould offers a handsome silver cup for the best St Bernard at the New England Kennel Club show in the city on April 3 4 5 and 6. The owner must be a member of the St Bernard Club of America and Gould, owner of several valuable St Bernards, will enter several competitors.
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Frank Jay Gould
New York
New England
Question Raised as to Who Owns the Camp Commissaries
A legislative inquiry into the Metropolitan Water Board and Wachusett Reservoir drew into focus a dispute between Clinton business lawyer Charles F. Choate Jr and Water Board counsel J. H. Benton Jr. over an alleged $800 liquor bill for contractor crews and the board’s payroll procedures. The committee pressed for the file, while the chairman noted no intent to conceal nor overburden with irrelevant data.
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Metropolitan Water Board
Wachusett Reservoir
Clinton
Charles F. Choate, Jr
J. H. Benton, Jr
Water Board
Choate
Sprague
Morrison
Lcensed
Wachusett Valley
Senator Post
Who Owns the Commissaries and the Map Questioned
In the testimony Mr. Walsh asks who owns the commissaries and whether a map was prepared in the office. The exchange centers on ownership and documentary support.
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Commissaries
Mr. Walsh
Masterly South American Nervine Promises Universal Cure
An advertisement claims a nervine remedy permanently cures stomach weakness and indigestion. It asserts rapid relief from first dose, lasting safety, and universal effectiveness. Sold by Geo C Goodwin Co., Boston.
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GEO, C. Goodwin Co
Boston
Fire Destroys Wayneboro Block Hurting Fourteen Firms
A major blaze in Waynesboro Penn today wiped out the J P and J M Wolfe business block housing fourteen firms. Loss estimated at 80000 dollars with Wolff Bros suffering the heaviest hit as carpets and building stock valued at 18000 dollars and 15000 dollars in insurance. Other large losses fall to smaller firms in the same block.
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Waynesboro
Penn
J. P
J. M. Wolfe
Wolff Bros
Whee
Sapho hearing resumes as defense cites letters from business men
Magistrate Mott continues Sapho case with dramatic critic Sewall Collins describing acts as riotous and Parisian. Defense presents theater managers Theodore Moss and Louis Nethersole supporting the play, while prosecution prepares summation for Monday. Various shows and engagements are listed for Boston theatres through the week.
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New York
Mott
Sewall Collins
Miss Nethersole
Theodore Moss
Wallack
Sapho
Gardiner
Boston Theater Season Shows Big Names In Weeklong Lineup
May Irwin returns to the Boston Museum with a new hit while Sister Mary opens at Tremont on the same scale as New York run. Sarah Cowell LeMoyne debuts at Tremont in The Greatest Thing in the World. Chauncey Olcott begins at Boston Theatre with A Romance of Athlone and new songs. Louis Mann and Clara Lipman headline The Girl in the Barracks at the Park with a fresh play. Grand Opera House shifts from farce to melodrama as Cherry Pickers concludes tonight. Next week features William and more.
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Keith
Robert Hilliard
Richard Harding Davis
Smith and Fuller
Lee Erroll
al Filson
John T. Thorne
Grace Carleton
George C. Davis
Jules Keller
Ali Hassan
Austin & Stone
Zip
New York
Leo
Bismarck Kennels
Palace Theatre
Harry Williams, Jr
Frank Daniels
Tremont Theatre
Boston Theatre
the Park
Governor
Boston
Merri Osborne
Maxim
Museum
Shenandoah
Robert Piuott
Mary Sanders
Canada
R. E H. Johnston
Schoeffel
London
Connie Ediss
Maude Odell
Castle Square
Music Hall
St. Mary’s
Campanari
de Voto
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Otto Roth
Max Zach
Louis Massen
Andrew Mack
Academy of Music
Sydney Rosenfeld
Louis ‘Mann
Clara Lipman
Park Theatre
Daniel Frohman
Daly's Theatre
Henry Miller
Irwin
Mr. Miller
Alice Neilsen
May Irwin
Boston Museum
Mary
Sarah Cowell LeMoyne
Tremont
Chauncey Olcott
Mr. Olcott
Louis Mann
Grand Opera House
Joseph Arthur
William
Dean's Ointment Promises Quick Skin Relief
Advertisement-style note claims Dean's Ointment cures eczema and other skin diseases without harm to children. Mentions availability at any drug store for 50.
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Dean
Rice Benefit Draws Star-Studded Boston Cast
The committee for E. E. Rice’s mammoth testimonial at the Boston Theatre next Thursday afternoon declines many volunteers due to limited time on a noon to six program. New additions include Chauncey Olcott and D. L. Don with a piano specialty from The Rounders. The Strollers, the noted New York amateur group, will perform selections from The Lady From Chicago, seen recently at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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E. E. Rice
Boston Theatre
Chauncey Olcott
D. L. Don
Rounders
New York
Chicago
Waldorf-Astoria
Madge Lessing Shines in The Rounders at Columbia
Madge Lessing debuted as Pris cilla in The Rounders at the Columbia last night. She failed to match the predecessor's singing but compensated with sprightliness and vim in portraying the Quaker wife.
Dewey Arch Photograph Offer At Browning King Store
In New York the Dewey arch marks Broad way Fifth avenue and Twentieth street as a memorial to Manila Bay’s May 1 1898 victory. Browning King & Co offers a free arch photograph with a fifty cent purchase at 700 Washington street corner Kneeland.
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New York City
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Tweng-thira Street
Manila
Browning, King & Co
Washington Street
Corner
Kneeland
Sunday church services and lectures announced in Tremont Temple area
Tremont Temple lists morning and evening services by Rev. George C. Lorimer, Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, and Dr. Nathan E. Wood with sermon topics on Enthusiasm for Humanity The Great Problems of Religious Thought and The Berry of Christian Bondage Also noted are Wesleyan style temperance meetings Sunday school baptisms and a fourteenth sermon in the Lorimer series Union Hall hosts Frank O Hall of the Third Universalist Church presenting How the Bible Came Down to Us with 100 views and stereopticon illustrations
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Tremont Temple
George C. Lorimer
Enthusiasm For Humanity
Lorimer
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
West Canton Street
Warren Avenue
Herberts. Johnson
Ben Franklin
Milk Street
Boston
Phipps
Squantum
Bradford
First Baptist Church
Commonwealth Avenue
Nathan E. Wood
D. D
John Robertson
Glasgow
Scotland
M. Christian Union
Union Hall
Boyston Street
Frank O. Hall
Third Universalist Church
North
Cambridge
Boston Young Men’s Christian Association
Boylston
Berkeley Streets
Association Hall
Dr. Gray
George . Mehaffey
R. L. Greene
Ministry of the Minstrel
Rcald
Tremont Street
Concord
Tremont Streets
John D. Pickles
People’s Temple
Columbus Avenue
Berkeley Street
L. H. Dorchester
Heaven
Ladies’ Philharmonic Orchestra
R Evangelistic Association OF New England—Union
Park Street
N. T. Whitaker
Tyler
Kneeland Streets
Joseph Cook
Park Street Church
Berkeley Temple
C. C. Phelan
Portland
Phelan
Myr. C. P. Jameson
William W. Lucas
Jiente. Ga
Oprano
Alice J. Parris
Sargent
Tremont
Edward Anderson
Mrs. Stone
Mr. Kennedy
Dr. Anderson
OLD South Church
Third Church
George A. Gordon
Wil
Religious notices fill Boston on a crowded weekend
A dense schedule lists services and events across Boston churches and halls. The Boston Y M C A plans Bible study classes and sermons with figures such as Dr Gray and Rev R L Greene. Multiple temples host sermons, concerts, and lectures featuring ministers and musicians, with doors open for all.
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Bay Safe Gas
Co. S. Kellar
Mock
Wee
J. Hughes
Buttle Vs. Page Box Company
Mr. Choate
United States
John W. Corcoran
Massachusetts
T. H. Riddle & Co
Walsh
Baldwin
Lorenzo PD. Ridlen
Frank Gould
Licansad
W. L. Douglas
Anteed
Astolor
Teaf
Unite State
Brockton
Mass
OUR Foston
Summer St
Lincoln St
D. C. Partridge
Washington St
Essex St
W. A. McWhirk
Court St
Howard St
A. P. Payette
City Hall Ave
School St
W. H. Osgood
John H. Colby
M. M. Mansfield
Lowell
Sidr
Lessen Moss and
Miss Nether
Sole
A. Brady
Joseph R. Grismer
M. A. Kennedy
Russia
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Klondike
Grand Theatre
Julia Marlowe
Hollis
Barbara Frietchie
Conan Doyle
Girdlestone
Castle Square Theatre
Madge Lessing
Priscilla
Columbia
Howard
Tv Sports Company
Artie Hall
McIntyre and Rice
Terry and Lambert
MR. Rice
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Baptist
Sasman
Knickerbocker A
Syracuse University v. Posse Gymnasium
Fall River Y
Fitchburg
Herrick’s
Copley Sq
Ines Merxins
Isaac B. Rich
Charles Frohman
Jolla
Marlowe
Clyde Fitch
Eugene Vonckinn
Lessee
Mgr
Louis Vann
Methodist
Presbyterian
Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Warren Street
Woodbine
J. J. Dunlop
den of Lions
Beok of
Daniel
Exeter Street
Zoroaster
Emanuel Edenberg
Berkeley Hall
F. A. Wiggin
I Communications
Remonnn Teleatre
Victor Herbert
Kirke la Shelle
Frederic Ranken
s.conet_LE MOYNE
Ore Ford
Beatrice DeMille
Liebler & Co
el Tomorrow
Vir. Campanari
Mr. de Voto
George W. Magee
Ots
India
Eugene Tompkins
Hex
M. Rice
Castle Theatre
Tremont St
Tele
Tek Daly
aBe
Oxford
Ee Et Tiarie Wainwright
Mai
Smith and Cook
Bell
Prof. Dodd
Robert Hilliard and Company
Nilsson
Jesus Christ
Old Providence Station
Park Square
B. Pond
G. Thalberg
Bus
Man
Mats
Wed
Thos. O. Seabrooke
Geo. v. Lederer
Dan Daly
Dlo
Bowdoin Rikatee
Heart of
Manhattan Comedy 4
Elvin Crox Seabrooke
Burt Haverly
Bland
Astinz Stone
Hassan Ali
Prussia
Tremont Row
NEW Palace Theatre
Noc da
Merry Maiden
J L. Greene
Gerald Lambert
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